You've heard the 30 second preview that kept on giving (guffaws), now it is time for Lou Reed and Metallica's "The View" in its lumbering entirety. If you like these artists in their most overblown…   Read Story »

When we first learned that Lou Reed and Metallica had gone and made an entire album together, just about everyone asked the same question at the exact same time: How could this possibly sound? We're…   Read Story »

The same Lou Reed + Metallica website that set out inspiration for this collaborative project's Lulu LP ("German expressionist writer Frank Wededkind’s plays 'Earth Spirit' and 'Pandora’s Box,'…   Read Story »

Here's an actual IM I just got from Stereogum executive editor Amrit Singh: "Ride the Lou-tning." This ghastly pun, obviously, was a reference to the forthcoming batshit Lou Reed/Metallica…   Read Story »

Metallica helped Reed perform "Sweet Jane” and “White Light/ White Heat” in October 2009 at the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame concert in NYC. It worked, so the thrash icons and…   Read Story »

In a photo spread titled "Ballad Of A Thin Man" and subtitled "Godfathers Of Glam" and basically boiling down to "Someone Old, Something New," this Sunday's T Mag juxtaposed the exquisitely preserved…   Read Story »

Since the Grammys got tasteful for Album Of The Year, it was up to the commercials to pack the crass. Cue Hewlitt Packard, who had their way with Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side," thereby managing…   Read Story »

After making Susan Boyle cry, Lou Reed has apparently gone and directed her first music video, a cover of his "Perfect Day." See, it wasn't Reed denying her permission to sing the song on America's…   Read Story »

Gorillaz did "Rhinestone Eyes" on Letterman Friday night. It worth watching from the introduction, where the band's hurried soundchecking interrupts Letterman several times. If you were in the…   Read Story »

Hey, what are members of the Velvet Underground up to? Lots, apparently: John Cale played all of his 1973 album, Paris 1919 at UCLA's Royce Hall with his band and the UCLA Philharmonia last…   Read Story »